BLOG: Providing poor Indian women with more control of their potential wages increased labour force participation and led to more progressive gender norms. We conducted a large-scale experiment in partnership with government and...

INTERVIEW: Earlier this week, we spoke with economist Tim Bartik of the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research about his new book on economic development incentives. In that conversation, we covered the dramatic growth in...

Basic income has entered mainstream political discussion in India like nowhere else in the world. This is the story of how that happened. 

In the past decade, many prominent Indian economists have put...

SEND GHANA has appealed to government to fast track the release of social protection funds to prevent undue delays. Addressing the media at a press conference in Accra, the Deputy Country Director of SEND GHANA, Mr. Emmanuel Ayifah...

The prevalence of adult obesity in Latin America and the Caribbean has tripled since 1975, affecting one in four adults in a region where hunger has grown once again, reaching 42.5 million people, according to a new United Nations...

OPINION: October 17 marked the United Nations’ International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, an annual reminder of the need for continued vigilance in the fight against social injustice. While much has been achieved in terms of...

The cabinet on Tuesday approved ‘Ehsaas Governance and Integrity Observatory’ and ‘Ehsaas Governance and Integrity Policy’ aimed at checking corruption and promoting transparency as well as accountability in social safety nets.

A lack of transparency on farmer suicide data and meager and irregular welfare payments is forcing Indian children out of school, advocates say. Nearly 60,000 farmer suicides have been linked to climate change.

OPINION: Haiti is in the throes of a humanitarian disaster provoked by months of violent protests. Demonstrations have blocked supply routes, choking a nation already crippled by poverty. Accessing health care in these conditions is...

BLOG: A narrative approach study identified three main labour reforms that increased and then decreased employment protection in Hungary, writes Nauro Campos. This post looks at these important reforms in an understudied yet key...

BLOG: There is growing evidence that in order to accelerate progress in reducing undernutrition, nutrition-specific approaches may be more effective in preventing undernutrition when complemented with cash transfers. In Myanmar and ...

BLOG: World leaders have a disappointing record when it comes to crises that take decades to unfold. Much greater investment in the prevention of HIV/AIDS in the 1980s could have saved millions of lives and billions of dollars 20...